My senior design (“capstone”) project for my B.S. in mechanical engineering at Northeastern University was the design of a novel variable geometry (thrust vectoring and throat area compensation) nozzle for a small turbojet engine. A research and concept development phase took place during Summer 2019, followed by a design and analysis phase during Spring 2020. Due to the SARS-nCoV2 pandemic, our campus closed and we were unable to manufacture and test a prototype on the original timeline, instead doubling down on CFD and thermal-structural analyses.
Out of the twenty-two projects in Spring 2020 class, our team won the Most Innovative Project award - a cash prize voted upon by alumni jurors. As of summer 2020, a provisional patent application has been filed.
My group’s final presentation can be viewed above in its entirety. Selected slides highlighting my own contributions (initial research and hand calculations, CAD design and data management, 2D CFD analysis, 3D thermal-structural analysis) are repeated below.
